Finished this a while ago
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy Very "Academic" book but there are some crazy stories in there about the USSR's Bio/Chemical/Nuclear weapon programs, some good ones off the top of my head....
We signed some treaty in the 70's banning development of chem/bio weapons. The Soviets just ignored it because they figured we were ignoring it too. We weren't
This incident,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak ...Bunch of Anthrax gets out of their production facility and kills over 100 people. Soviets blame it on "tainted meat".
High level soviet scientists got paid crap, especially right after the USSR fell.
The USSR used to just ship bio/chem/nuclear weapons in "Armoured Train cars" which were basically just standard train cars with some Steel bolted on the side.